Mining Bitcoin with Raspberry Pi

Hey guys, I’ve got a Raspberry Pi running a node. Is it possible to mine Bitcoin solo? I know it’s not really profitable, but I wanna try it out and see how it works.

Is your node fully synced? Not sure if you can mine solo directly on that thing. Most miners go for pools since they use stratum connections.

I remember using some guide to solo mine testnet bitcoins with bfgminer and a CPU/GPU a few years back. Worked pretty well! But idk if bfgminer runs on Raspberry Pi with its ARM CPU. You can mine using Bitcoin Core CLI, but that only works on regtest nodes.

Can you explain that a bit more? Sounds interesting!

So basically, two angles to your question. First, can you use the Pi to mine Bitcoin solo? Yes, but the CPU is weak, and it might overheat if you push it too hard. You could try cpuminer-opt to mine at solo.ckpool.org. Second, can you set it up as a mining pool? Yes, but maybe not worth the hassle.

What exactly do you wanna know? Setting up the software or how to keep the Pi running long enough for mining? Lots of guides online, better to check YouTube for that. If you hit a snag while setting up, just ask here. But honestly, keeping it stable might cost more than buying coins outright.